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| author | Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> | 2011-08-02 10:50:44 (GMT) |
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| committer | Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> | 2011-08-02 10:50:44 (GMT) |
| commit | 22a7b488e0fe72c51de6f036f6a03b5d191120eb (patch) | |
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| parent | 01a3ee8b217f9d7dfb76374f9bd8383dfdffdbb5 (diff) | |
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Fix closes Issue12183 - Explain the Symlink copy behavior in shutil.copytree. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst index 1082d2a..cb0a9ae 100644 --- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst +++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst @@ -105,8 +105,9 @@ Directory and files operations :func:`copy2`. If *symlinks* is true, symbolic links in the source tree are represented as - symbolic links in the new tree; if false or omitted, the contents of the - linked files are copied to the new tree. + symbolic links in the new tree, but the metadata of the original links is NOT + copied; if false or omitted, the contents and metadata of the linked files + are copied to the new tree. If *ignore* is given, it must be a callable that will receive as its arguments the directory being visited by :func:`copytree`, and a list of its |